Hey, I've been poking around here for a couple hours, and the only issue I've seen that resembles my issue is this one, PMS 1.53.0 Playback Stopping Near End of File, but the issues there seem different from mine. I'm also seeing playback freeze near the end of some files, with a concurrent spike in CPU usage. It will bump along for most of the show at 5-25%, and then about 5-6 minutes from the end, it will jump to a solid and steady 50%, and then almost exactly 4 minutes from the end (+/- ~5 seconds in every case), the CPU will jump to 100% and stay there for the rest of the file, even staying at 100% after I exit back to my directory listing. It will stay at 100% until I select and start a different file or until 2-4 minutes have elapsed.

On the files where this happens, occasionally the playback will pause and resume once or twice in that last 4 minutes, but much more often, it will play normally until 10-20 seconds from the end, then freeze. The behavior at this point varies. Sometimes it just stays frozen, sometimes it will restart for a few seconds and stop again, and sometimes it will jump backwards by some random interval (I've seen anywhere from 5 seconds to 4 minutes) and play from there. The one thing they all have in common is playback will not continue automatically to the next file in the directory when this occurs, neither is using the "next" button effective. You must exit back to the directory list manually.

The only other detail I can add is it is not necessary to "play through" to see this CPU usage behavior. If I jump ahead to 5-6 minutes from EOF, the usage goes to the 50% mark, and if I jump ahead to <4 minutes from EOF, the usage immediately goes to and remains at the 100% level.

I ran mencoder into an mpg as per the instructions in the thread linked above, and both the original mkv and the output mpg played correctly all the way to the end in VLC on my PC. I can copy the output text here if you'd like, but this post is already way too long. Sorry about that.

I am having a similar problem. It stops playback at the end of the file and will not play the next file in the sequence in the folder. Even if I exit out of the file and manually start the next one it won't play. I have to quit and restart the application after each file. This started w/ 1.53.0. Only on .mkv files and unlike the above poster the playback is close enough to the end of the file that there is nothing left to view in it so I can muddle through, it's just that I have to get up and restart the application.

Can't find any one else with exactly the same problem so I was thinking it was my PC. (don't know much about computers)

Just updated to 1.70 today, from 1.52.1, to see if this issue is fixed. It is not. CPU cycles still spike to 100% at almost exactly 4 minutes from the end of the mkv file, and the playback freezes entirely at 10-20 seconds from the end.

As before, reverting to 1.52.1, as that is the last release that I have found to successfully play mkv files to their end.